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Foundation Role and Practice: Building Healthy Communities, 2010-2020

November 2020

This report outlines roles and practices used by The California Endowment that were instrumental in shaping the trajectory of the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) program.

This is one of a two reports which synthesize themes and lessons about the necessary work The California Endowment (TCE), its partners, and the broader philanthropic communities must do to engage in long-term, social change work.  Read the other report, Sustaining Board Engagement: Building Healthy Communities, 2010-2020, here.

(51 pp)

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Assessing the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
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Report

Sustaining Board Engagement: Building Healthy Communities, 2010-2020

November 2020

This report outlines strategies employed by The California Endowment to maintain sustained Board engagement in order to support the Building Healthy Communities (BHC) program.

This is one of a two reports which synthesize themes and lessons about the necessary work The California Endowment (TCE), its partners, and the broader philanthropic communities must do to engage in long-term, social change work.  Read the other report, Foundation Role and Practice: Building Healthy Communities, 2010-2020, here.

(44 pp)

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Learning & Evidence, Assessing the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
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Brief

Using Café Conversations to Build Protective and Promotive Factors

October 2020

The goal of café-style conversations is to create an intimate environment where parents, caregivers, and community members can share and support each other as a strategy for strengthening families.

(4 pp)

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families, Strengthening Families
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Brief

Coming Together During COVID-19: Early Childhood Systems Supporting Families

October 2020

This brief is the first in a three-part series, highlighting community and local level responses to COVID-19. This first brief discusses how the infrastructure and partnerships EC-LINC communities have developed over years of building their early childhood systems have allowed them to address the needs confronting families with young children.

(12 pp)

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families, EC-LINC, DULCE, COVID-19
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Webinar

Strengthening Families 101

October 2020

This webinar provided a Strengthening Families introduction for people who are new to the protective factors framework and the Strengthening Families approach. It also served as a free, pre-conference training for people attending the Together for Families conference October 14-16, 2020, but is open and available to anyone who would like an introduction or refresher on what Strengthening Families is all about.

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families
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Webinar

Guide to Leveraging Opportunities Between Title V and Medicaid for Social-Emotional Development

September 2020

This webinar presented the framework of opportunities to leverage Title V and Medicaid partnerships and offer reflections from thought leaders about the importance of action. Access the slides here. 

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families, Pediatrics Supporting Parents
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Webinar

Applying CSSP’s Anti-Racist Intersectional Frame to Our Work

July 2020

Attendees learned about the anti-racist intersectional frame developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), and to explore its application to CSSP’s Strengthening Families work and other projects related to young children and their families. The webinar also discuss opportunities to apply the frame within your own Strengthening Families work in your programs, communities, and systems.

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Racial Equity & Justice, Young Children & Their Families
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Webinar

Early Relational Health and Protective Factors

June 2020

This webinar offered an opportunity to reflect on the importance of foundational relationships and how this work can strengthen the protective factors framework and be integrated with your implementation of Strengthening Families.

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families, Strengthening Families
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Report

Early Relational Health National Survey: What We’re Learning From the Field

May 2020

This report discusses the Early Relational Health (ERH) National Survey conducted across early childhood health communities to get a better sense of current ERH-related activities, practices, and policies and how we can find opportunities to advance an ERH agenda.

(31 pp)

 

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Young Children & Their Families
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Report

Getting to the Heart of Equity: A Human Centered Design Case Study

April 2020

The application of a human-centered design approach by Del Norte and Tribal Lands (DNATL), part of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative, illustrates one strategy for engaging and partnering with community members to design an initiative that strives for health equity. This report explores how human-centered design was used in the BHC-DNATL work.

(16 pp)

Tags: Building Strong Communities, Learning & Evidence, Evidence for Equity, Assessing the Building Healthy Communities Initiative
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